Mallory's Melody
Peculiar Omoniyi
Mallory Trent has two goals in life: to be an obedient daughter and become a star violinist. Things seem to work in her favor when she gets to be one of the lucky instrumentalists selected for a spot in the Starlight Academy, an exclusive art school in search of raw and distinctive talents.
Being the inexperienced daddy's girl she is, she enters the competition expecting this would be just another breeze. But after a couple of hits in her rear, she decides she has to do something she's never done before. Fight herself to the top. That also implies her trampling every form of opposition and getting out of her little naïve shell. She needs to shed her old skin and get herself a tougher one, a harder heart.
And sure, she gets one. Yet, at the expense of rebelling against her ill father and getting herself an intellectual boyfriend who's arguments against God puts her at seeming enmity with her religious roots. But either way, it appears to be a win-win situation when she returns to the competition, a newer her, the best her yet as it were.
In the meanwhile, at the competition, hearts-and strings-get broken, the talented get blacklisted, and friends become enemies. Mallory seems at all odds when she has to fight off the feeling that something is terribly wrong with her world, that everything isn't quite what it seems at Starlight Academy.